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[America] [MOREAU (Jacob-Nicolas)].
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[America] [MOREAU (Jacob-Nicolas)].
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
[America] [MOREAU (Jacob-Nicolas)]. Memorandum containing a summary of the facts with supporting documents (...). Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1756. One in-12 volume, in contemporary fawn calfskin, ribbed spine decorated with grotesque motifs, triple fillet edging on the covers. VIII, 275 pp.
An important diplomatic memorandum concerning the origins of the Seven Years’ War in North America. Drafted ‘to serve as a reply to the observations sent by the ministers of England to the courts of Europe’, the work, supplemented by numerous supporting documents, sets out the French position in the conflict then pitting the two powers against one another over possession of the territories of the Ohio Valley and Canada. In particular, it contains the diary of George Washington, then a young officer in the Virginia militia, recounting his expedition into the Ohio Valley and the clashes with the French in 1754.
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About the sale
Antique and modern books: catalogued sale
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11/14/2026 at 10:30 AM
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